C Mccarty
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3269 |
|---|---|
| NOME | C Mccarty |
| PRENOMES | C |
| SOBRENOME | Mccarty |
| ASSINATURA | MCCARTY C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Florida |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2917-8318 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 57 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 287 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 57 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1982 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2027 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
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Comparing Name Generator Designs in Panel Personal Network Data
We conducted a two-wave personal network study in a rural Romanian community. We interviewed 68 participants twice using different name generators. The first wave used a fixed-choice generator (25 alters) focused on emotional closeness. The second wave, six months later, used a non-fixed generator based on frequent interaction. This change responded to feedback that the fixed-choice format was burdensome. The study illustrates how adapting design…
Time poverty and disaster readiness
Disaster warnings offer critical lead time for preparation, but how people use it is shaped by their daily routines and demands. Although prior research has examined psychological and demographic vulnerabilities in disaster preparedness, the impact of time-poverty – especially during back-to-back disasters – has received little attention. As a result, some groups may experience heightened time stress, lack sufficient time to prepare, or even face…
Adapting Longitudinal Personal Network Research Through Participation
Longitudinal personal network studies make unique contributions to understanding how social contexts evolve. These studies have primarily been conducted in structured environments, such as hospitals, schools, workplaces, or large urban populations, where participants are easily reached, and standardized tools can be applied. These conditions differ from those in rural communities, where services are scarce, commuting is a part of daily life, and …
Introduction to the Network Scale-up Method
Collecting a large number of alters in egocentric network research
This article presents an analysis of the impact of the number of alters elicited in an ego network on the structural properties of those networks. There continues to be debate about the pros and cons of eliciting a fixed number of alters for each respondent versus allowing the respondent to list as many or few alters as they would like. This article explores a random assignment of respondents to three treatment groups – (1) a fixed number of alte…
How Teaching Research Design Advances Applied Anthropology
Mastery of research design options offers a powerful tool in the Applied Anthropologist's toolkit. Because policy makers depend upon reliable evidence – and not just debates – applied anthropologists need to be aware of the strengths and weaknesses in data collection methods and designs to offer reasonable and strong approaches to problem solving. Future applied anthropologists may find themselves in situations where a variety of data collection …
Does Providing an Example Social Network Map Increase Referrals or Affect Types of Ties Reported in an Online Survey
Social network research often depends on the willingness of respondents to provide personal information about themselves and alters. Survey design strategies that increase willingness to share this information are necessary for social network research to be feasible, especially when name generators are used for sampling because rosters are unavailable. We conducted an experiment in which one group of respondents ( n = 94) received an online surve…
Developing a model for AI Across the curriculum
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a ubiquitous concept and tool already found across society and an integral part of everyday life. As such, basic understanding and knowledge of AI should be a critical component of student education to foster successful global citizens. This position paper describes one possible path to address potential gaps in AI education and integrate AI across the curriculum at a traditional research university. The University…
Personal Network Changes among Smoking Relapse Prevention Intervention Participants
This is promising evidence of the potential of HSQ to facilitate cessation in the network of those who recently quit smoking, which may benefit their ability to stay quit
HIV Risk among trafficked women
Stressful social environment and financial strain drive depressive symptoms, and reveal the effects of a FKBP5 variant and male sex, in African Americans living in Tallahassee
OBJECTIVES: The World Health Organization estimates that almost 300 million people suffer from depression worldwide. African Americans are understudied for depression-related phenotypes despite widespread racial disparities. In our study of African Americans, we integrated information on psychosocial stressors with genetic variation in order to better understand how these factors associated with depressive symptoms. METHODS: Our research strategy…
How do migrants' processes of social embedding unfold over time
In this article we investigate how migrants' processes of social (dis-) embedding in local and transnational contexts unfold over time and illustrate their driving forces. Drawing on unique longitudinal, mixed-methods social network data of 77 transnational migrants in Barcelona, Spain, we were able to capture changes in social relationships at a micro-level. We found that migrant embedding is far from a linear process. In many regards, the obser…
Connecting the dots
Telephone Survey Calling Patterns, Productivity, Survey Responses, and Their Effect on Measuring Public Opinion
This study examines the effect of telephone survey dialing patterns on lab productivity and survey responses. Using an original data set of paradata from 2010 to 2017 and a machine learning technique for variable selection, we find that early and late afternoon shifts are as productive as late evening shifts for both landline and cellphone Random Digit Dialing (RDD) samples. Also, early weekdays are more productive than the weekend for the cellph…
The Social Network of US Academic Anthropology and Its Inequalities
Anthropologists often call attention to the problems posed by social inequality, but academic anthropology also reproduces many of the very inequalities that its practitioners work to critique. Past research on US academic hiring networks has shown evidence of systematic inequality and hierarchy, attributed in significant part to the influence of academic prestige, which is not necessarily a reflection of merit or academic productivity. Using ant…
Flexible Labors
This paper examines the flexible labor of Chinese female sex workers (FSWs) by looking at their job mobility. We show the women's flexible job mobility as an active strategy in addition to a direct response to the marketplace. Drawing upon in-depth interview data (n=175) during twenty-six months of ethnographic fieldwork in post-socialist China, we demonstrate the workers' spatial mobility (i.e., holding jobs in multiple locations) and temporal m…
A personal network approach to the study of immigrant structural assimilation and transnationalism
This paper proposes a personal network approach to the study of structural assimilation and structural transnationalism among international immigrants. Structural assimilation and transnationalism are defined as embeddedness in native social networks of the host society, and in co-national social networks of the origin society, respectively. Data on the personal networks of international immigrants, each including 45 alters, are obtained from two…
In-Transitivity
Previous studies propose “transitivity” as a key network property. Our research suggests that when networks consist of relations that potentially carry major social costs, members of those networks may actively prevent transitivity (e.g., information flow), fostering in-transitivity. Using mixed research methods, we analyzed the social network structure of 175 female sex workers (FSWs) in post-socialist China. We identify four patterns of sex wor…
Personal networks of women in residential and outpatient substance abuse treatment
This study compared compositional, social support, and structural characteristics of personal networks among women in residential (RT) and intensive outpatient (IOP) substance abuse treatment. The study sample included 377 women from inner-city substance use disorder treatment facilities. Respondents were asked about 25 personal network members known within the past 6 months, characteristics of each (relationship, substance use, types of support)…
Herbal remedy knowledge acquisition and transmission among the Yucatec Maya in Tabi, Mexico
There are two possible mechanisms that could account for the differences between cohorts: 1) knowledge accumulation over time; and/or 2) the stunting of knowledge acquisition through delayed acquisition, competing treatment options, and changes in values. Primary ethnographic evidence suggests that both mechanisms may be at play in Tabi. Future studies using longitudinal or cross-site comparisons are necessary to determine the whether and how the…
Postdisaster reciprocity and the development of inequality in personal networks
Within the context of major changes in economics, population distribution, and lifestyles around the world, people continue to rely on personal relationships for support. People also often create or find themselves in relationships that are alternatively asymmetrical or balanced. In this study, we are interested in how people face acute or chronic hazards and how asymmetrical or balanced exchange relationships are associated with different types …
Evidence of emerging hookah use among university students
As hookah surpasses cigarette use, efforts need to be made to slow the increase in new tobacco products that are attractive to young adults and that pose many of the same health risks as those related to traditional tobacco products. Prevalence of all emerging tobacco products, including hookah, and the relationship with cigarette use needs to be monitored on an ongoing basis
Cross-Cultural and Site-Based Influences on Demographic, Well-being, and Social Network Predictors of Risk Perception in Hazard and Disaster Settings in Ecuador and Mexico
Manioc Varietal Diversity, Social Networks, and Distribution Constraints in Rural Amazonia
Social exchange networks play a critical role in the maintenance and distribution of crop diversity in smallholder farming communities throughout the world. The structure of such networks, however, can both support and constrain crop diversity and its distribution. This report examines varietal distribution of the staple crop manioc among rural households in three neighboring caboclo communities in Brazilian Amazonia. The results show that the ce…
The Social Network of US Academic Anthropology and Its Inequalities
Anthropologists often call attention to the problems posed by social inequality, but academic anthropology also reproduces many of the very inequalities that its practitioners work to critique. Past research on US academic hiring networks has shown evidence of systematic inequality and hierarchy, attributed in significant part to the influence of academic prestige, which is not necessarily a reflection of merit or academic productivity. Using ant…
Personal Networks and Ethnic Identifications
This article investigates whether personal networks influenced ethnic self-identifications of migrants in Spain. During the years 2004-6, data were collected about personal networks of migrants in Spain ( N = 294) through a questionnaire and a structured interview. The networks were classified into five network profiles on the basis of both variables about structure (e.g. density, betweenness and number of cohesive subgroups) and composition (e.g…
A Comparison of Social Network Mapping and Personal Network Visualization
This article presents an analysis of personal network visualization based on systematic evaluations of alter pairs compared to freestyle drawings respondents made of their personal network. In most cases, personal network visualization provided important details that are different from respondents' perceptions. Several case studies are discussed that highlight the additional data provided when using personal network visualization
Demographic effects of natural disasters
Many studies have considered the economic, social, and psychological effects of hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, tornadoes, and other natural disasters, but few have considered their demographic effects. In this paper we describe and evaluate a method for measuring the effects of Hurricane Andrew on the housing stock and population distribution in Dade County, Florida. Using information collected through sample surveys and from other data sources…
Effort in Phone Survey Response Rates
This article presents a model using data from 205 telephone surveys conducted in the same survey lab over a three-year period. The model demonstrates that while response rates are partly a function of variables reflecting effort, they are also affected by contextual variables often not under the survey vendor's control. Significant factors that affected response rates included the salience of the survey to the population, the survey length, the t…
Measuring Patterns of Acquaintanceship [and Comments and Reply]
This paper examines some of the factors which determine how people know each other and is a preliminary attempt to discover the rules which govern such interactions. An informant-defined experiment was conducted to elicit the information about a person needed by individuals in a small U.S. university town to choose which of their acquaintances was most likely to know that person. We found, as with a previous experiment, that knowledge of the pers…
Manioc Varietal Diversity, Social Networks, and Distribution Constraints in Rural Amazonia
Social exchange networks play a critical role in the maintenance and distribution of crop diversity in smallholder farming communities throughout the world. The structure of such networks, however, can both support and constrain crop diversity and its distribution. This report examines varietal distribution of the staple crop manioc among rural households in three neighboring caboclo communities in Brazilian Amazonia. The results show that the ce…
Studying Social Relations Cross-Culturally
In this paper, we report on an experimental study of social structure in three cultures: Mormon (Utah), Paiute (Arizona), and Ponapean (Micronesia). There are many ways to define social structure. Our position follows that of Radcliffe-Brown (1948) and Blau (1977), rather than that of Levi-Strauss (1963). That is, structure is the observable result of ordered behavior among people, rather than a model built up after the fact of human interaction.…
Fleeing the storm(s)
The 2004 hurricane season was the worst in Florida’s history, with four hurricanes causing at least 47 deaths and some $45 billion in damages. To collect information on the demographic impact of those hurricanes, we surveyed households throughout the state and in the local areas that sustained the greatest damage. We estimate that one-quarter of Florida’s population evacuated prior to at least one hurricane; in some areas, well over one-half of t…
Cross-Cultural and Site-Based Influences on Demographic, Well-being, and Social Network Predictors of Risk Perception in Hazard and Disaster Settings in Ecuador and Mexico
How do migrants' processes of social embedding unfold over time
In this article we investigate how migrants' processes of social (dis-) embedding in local and transnational contexts unfold over time and illustrate their driving forces. Drawing on unique longitudinal, mixed-methods social network data of 77 transnational migrants in Barcelona, Spain, we were able to capture changes in social relationships at a micro-level. We found that migrant embedding is far from a linear process. In many regards, the obser…
Herbal remedy knowledge acquisition and transmission among the Yucatec Maya in Tabi, Mexico
There are two possible mechanisms that could account for the differences between cohorts: 1) knowledge accumulation over time; and/or 2) the stunting of knowledge acquisition through delayed acquisition, competing treatment options, and changes in values. Primary ethnographic evidence suggests that both mechanisms may be at play in Tabi. Future studies using longitudinal or cross-site comparisons are necessary to determine the whether and how the…
Topical Sorting
Nonexperts’ Recognition of Structure in Personal Network Data
Network-based interventions are gaining prominence in the treatment of chronic illnesses; however, little is known about what aspects of network structure are easily identified by nonexperts when shown network visualizations. This study examines which structural features are recognizable by nonexperts. Nineteen nonexperts were asked to pile sort 68 network diagrams. Results were analyzed using multidimensional scaling, discriminant analysis, clus…
Investigating the Variation of Personal Network Size Under Unknown Error Conditions
This article estimates the variation in personal network size, using respondent data containing two systematic sources of error. The data are the proportion of respondents who, on average, claim to know zero, one, and two people in various subpopulations, such as “people who are widows under the age of 65” or “people who are diabetics.” The two kinds of error—transmission error (respondents are unaware that someone in their network is in a subpop…
Postdisaster reciprocity and the development of inequality in personal networks
Within the context of major changes in economics, population distribution, and lifestyles around the world, people continue to rely on personal relationships for support. People also often create or find themselves in relationships that are alternatively asymmetrical or balanced. In this study, we are interested in how people face acute or chronic hazards and how asymmetrical or balanced exchange relationships are associated with different types …
Alliances in the Interwar Era, 1919-1939
Collecting a large number of alters in egocentric network research
This article presents an analysis of the impact of the number of alters elicited in an ego network on the structural properties of those networks. There continues to be debate about the pros and cons of eliciting a fixed number of alters for each respondent versus allowing the respondent to list as many or few alters as they would like. This article explores a random assignment of respondents to three treatment groups – (1) a fixed number of alte…
Stressful social environment and financial strain drive depressive symptoms, and reveal the effects of a FKBP5 variant and male sex, in African Americans living in Tallahassee
OBJECTIVES: The World Health Organization estimates that almost 300 million people suffer from depression worldwide. African Americans are understudied for depression-related phenotypes despite widespread racial disparities. In our study of African Americans, we integrated information on psychosocial stressors with genetic variation in order to better understand how these factors associated with depressive symptoms. METHODS: Our research strategy…
Substance Abuse Treatment Stage and Personal Networks of Women in Substance Abuse Treatment
This study examines the relationship among 4 treatment stages (i.e., engagement, persuasion, active treatment, relapse prevention) and the composition, social support, and structural characteristics of personal networks. The study sample includes 242 women diagnosed with substance dependence who were interviewed within their first month of intensive outpatient treatment. Using EgoNet software, the women reported on their 25 alter personal network…
Consumer Confidence In Ghana And Its Implications For Survey-Based Economic Indicators In Africa
Differences in Response Rates Using Most Recent versus Final Dispositions in Telephone Surveys
Cet article se penche sur la codification des differentes modalites de non-reponses a une enquete par telephone. En effet, le taux de non-reponses depend largement des dispositions exprimees a ce stade de l'enquete (refus poli susceptible de rappels, absence totale de reponse etc.). C'est ainsi que l'attitude la plus recente peut differer de la disposition finale choisie par l'operateur au moment de son operation de codage. Cet article propose de…
Index
Alliances in the Interwar Era, 1919-1939
Topical Sorting
Measuring Patterns of Acquaintanceship [and Comments and Reply]
This paper examines some of the factors which determine how people know each other and is a preliminary attempt to discover the rules which govern such interactions. An informant-defined experiment was conducted to elicit the information about a person needed by individuals in a small U.S. university town to choose which of their acquaintances was most likely to know that person. We found, as with a previous experiment, that knowledge of the pers…
Studying Social Relations Cross-Culturally
In this paper, we report on an experimental study of social structure in three cultures: Mormon (Utah), Paiute (Arizona), and Ponapean (Micronesia). There are many ways to define social structure. Our position follows that of Radcliffe-Brown (1948) and Blau (1977), rather than that of Levi-Strauss (1963). That is, structure is the observable result of ordered behavior among people, rather than a model built up after the fact of human interaction.…
Comparing four different methods for measuring personal social networks
Estimating the size of personal networks
Determining Sample Size for Surveys
A social network approach to corroborating the number of Aids/HIV + victims in the US
Who knows your HIV status? What HIV + patients and their network members know about each other
How to Contract a Telephone Survey
Demographic effects of natural disasters
Many studies have considered the economic, social, and psychological effects of hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, tornadoes, and other natural disasters, but few have considered their demographic effects. In this paper we describe and evaluate a method for measuring the effects of Hurricane Andrew on the housing stock and population distribution in Dade County, Florida. Using information collected through sample surveys and from other data sources…
Eliciting representative samples of personal networks
A social network approach to estimating seroprevalence in the United States
Comparing Two Methods for Estimating Network Size
In this paper we compare two methods for estimating the size of personal networks using a nationally representative sample of the United States. Both methods rely on the ability of respondents to estimate the number of people they know in specific subpopulations of the U.S. (e.g., diabetics, Native Americans) and people in particular relation categories (e.g., immediate family, coworkers). The results demonstrate a remarkable similarity between t…
Two interpretations of reports of knowledge of subpopulation sizes
Differences in Response Rates Using Most Recent versus Final Dispositions in Telephone Surveys
Cet article se penche sur la codification des differentes modalites de non-reponses a une enquete par telephone. En effet, le taux de non-reponses depend largement des dispositions exprimees a ce stade de l'enquete (refus poli susceptible de rappels, absence totale de reponse etc.). C'est ainsi que l'attitude la plus recente peut differer de la disposition finale choisie par l'operateur au moment de son operation de codage. Cet article propose de…
Consumer Confidence In Ghana And Its Implications For Survey-Based Economic Indicators In Africa
Who Knows Your HIV Status II
We seek to explain on what basis people choose to tell stigmatizing information about themselves to others. In particular, are there any rules governing how such decisions are made? We asked 70 HIV-positive individuals whether they knew various items of knowledge about their network members, and vice versa. These items range from things which might be known easily (e.g., marital status), things which are more difficult to know (e.g., blood type),…
The accuracy of small world chains in social networks
Investigating the Variation of Personal Network Size Under Unknown Error Conditions
This article estimates the variation in personal network size, using respondent data containing two systematic sources of error. The data are the proportion of respondents who, on average, claim to know zero, one, and two people in various subpopulations, such as “people who are widows under the age of 65” or “people who are diabetics.” The two kinds of error—transmission error (respondents are unaware that someone in their network is in a subpop…
Effort in Phone Survey Response Rates
This article presents a model using data from 205 telephone surveys conducted in the same survey lab over a three-year period. The model demonstrates that while response rates are partly a function of variables reflecting effort, they are also affected by contextual variables often not under the survey vendor's control. Significant factors that affected response rates included the salience of the survey to the population, the survey length, the t…
Impact of methods for reducing respondent burden on personal network structural measures
A Comparison of Social Network Mapping and Personal Network Visualization
This article presents an analysis of personal network visualization based on systematic evaluations of alter pairs compared to freestyle drawings respondents made of their personal network. In most cases, personal network visualization provided important details that are different from respondents' perceptions. Several case studies are discussed that highlight the additional data provided when using personal network visualization
Personal Networks and Ethnic Identifications
This article investigates whether personal networks influenced ethnic self-identifications of migrants in Spain. During the years 2004-6, data were collected about personal networks of migrants in Spain ( N = 294) through a questionnaire and a structured interview. The networks were classified into five network profiles on the basis of both variables about structure (e.g. density, betweenness and number of cohesive subgroups) and composition (e.g…
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